Posted - 2007.09.26 07:22:00 -
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Just finished the first encounter and I got the escalation. Carp in the first room. About 15 t2 rig components in the second room. Will do the escalation tomorrw and I'll update.

And quit wondering if unknown sites are worth it THEY ARE if you would just put some time and effort in exploration, instead of giving up if a site doesn't escalate and you only get 2 mil in salvage parts.

Posted - 2007.12.20 21:58:00 -
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when you guys say 'escalation' do you mean expedition? escalation is when you wipe out all drone rats and more spawn. expedition is when you end up going to another system as directed by your blinking journal under the 'expedition' tab. please clarify.-V

Posted - 2007.12.21 11:27:00 -
[66]Edited by: Brixer on 21/12/2007 11:27:35The 800M-1B is only at the the end of the 5th step(including inital) of something the DEVs called an 'escalating path'. Now, each step is an expedition. So, you have to visit initial spawn and then 4 other systems to ripp the 1B reward.Everything on the way is chance based, even the fact you'll probably loose your ship more than once :P

I warp to the escalated part and I DIED in 30secs in a muninn. Scrammed webbed to 10m/s.Stubbern as I am I tried with a phoon next, Since drones are rainbow I went for 70-88% resist all across the board. This ship survived ~58 seconds. I believe my dual LAR II's got off 2 repair cycles EACH. Over 80K RAW damage in less than a minut.

Posted - 2008.03.13 06:51:00 -
[68]Edited by: Yonos on 13/03/2008 06:50:48I understand the whole expedition thing, I am veteran explorer. Just never got this site to escalate. What is the EXACT trigger to get an expedition?

Kill all drones?Approach a structure?Blow up a structure?Or something else?

Posted - 2008.03.13 07:35:00 -
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I believe the exact trigger for the initial site is killing all the ships in the final spawn. However, getting an escalation is random. Just because you hit the trigger, doesn't mean it will escalate.

Posted - 2008.03.13 18:44:00 -
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I do nothing but Drone sites, as I live in the Drone regions. I haven't seen Independance in awhile, but the Radiance complexes all give a message if they don't escalate now.

Originally by:Princess JodiI do nothing but Drone sites, as I live in the Drone regions. I haven't seen Independance in awhile, but the Radiance complexes all give a message if they don't escalate now.

I seem to remeber Independance never escalating.

Did radiance b4 DT and got no message at the end not but had a nice drone appear :P

Originally by:Taguchi HirokoJust ran into Independence now, went to second gate, bunch of spawns and got bored. Is this complex worth doing at all?

Probably only if you get to the 5th part of the expedition (always dead-ends on me before then so I can't speak from experience about the fabled 1b of t2 salvage at the end of it).

Aside from the scraps of t2 salvage you'll get from commanders (one per stage of the expedition I think), it'd mean running around 0.0 with some poor sucker in a hauler to get the mins from each stage to get any kind of reward.

Myself and a mate or two have tried maybe 15 expeditions so far, and they always dead-end before reaching the 5th pocket, after spending many hours on them - a bit sick of wasting time on all of them tbh for the crud rewards, but drones ones in particular I flat out ignore now.

Posted - 2008.06.22 12:32:00 -
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Found this plex shortly before downtime. Began running it right after. At warp in 5 frigate drones spawn. Upon reaching the 50km away gate 8 more spawn. Entered second room, empty. Killed everything that was kill able. Still nothing-------------------------------------------------Everyone hates goonswarm for one reason or another. ... And they promote****gotism -Zurrar

was doing an escalation i think, I was sent 30 jumps in total in hostile territory.Lost my Golem in first or second system, got scrammed and was beaten like I stole something.

So i took a Reg Raven when i warped in I made a bm and warped out before they could scram me. It was taking much longer in reg raven but I made to to last system I think. It was the 4th or 5th i was sent to. But ill be dammed if when i made my bm to warp back in the site had despanwed and I the mission was gone from my journal

if you try to solo like I do it might be a good idea to try to get your cov ops to follow into the plex just incase it despawned because I left the combat area.

ps. anything to to with drones seem to suck. so I dont do drone sites anymorepss. back in my Golem and they are so

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